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    Please add a "COPY membername" command to IMS DDL that would allow us to include copybooks containing commonly used PCBs (SCHEMAs)

    This idea would better align with how traditional PSB source is managed in our shop. We rely on the COPY command supported by the Assembly of the PSB in the PSBGEN process. A similar capability for DDL would ease the transition to DDL.
    about 2 months ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 0 Under review

    One of our customers is complaining about the inefficiency of IBM Business Events Unordered Dispatch Queue using a default 32,000 byte buffer for their larger Event Message Feeds which exceed the default buffer length and results in MQGET/decompressing the message twice. The customer is planning on turning on Compression for IBEV.UNORDERED.DISPATCH.QUEUE; however, they are requesting we increase BEVQ_DEFAULT_BUFFER_LENGTH in bevq.cpp:

    Inefficient behavior: BEVQ allocates a 32000 byte buffer to read the messages, if the buffer is not large enough the MQGET has decompressed the message it then returns MQRC_TRUNCATED_MSG_FAILED, and leaves the message on the queue. It then realloc...
    2 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

    We don’t have insight into all the data in AWS so we don’t know what the highwater maximum message sizes before/after compression and mqm we are sending out are.

    Regarding average and largest uncompressed message sizes, I nor the customer are aware of any existing tools available to gather this information for IBM BEV dispatch queues. Additionally, while I was on vacation the customer requested in November...
    2 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

    Add Timeout Argument to Find, Wait and Hold Macro/Functions (assembler & C)

    Applications/Utilities/Processes need a way to provide the max amount of time it is willing to wait to access a data record. If the timeout value for the "W"ait has been reached, then the process can make a determination what should happen in the ...
    3 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

    IMS log takes advantage of zHyperLink feature

    Hi there, It has been a while since the IMSSS-I-222 raised. (https://ibm-z-software-portal.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IMSSS-I-222) . Could you please reconsider the idea? This will make IMS's performance unmatched, and Db2 /VSAM have taken advantage the ...
    4 months ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 0 Under review

    Enable MPPs and BMPs to connect to first *available* member of a Db2 data-sharing group

    Right now, when using Db2 group-attach feature of IMS, BMP and MPP regions support only connecting to the very first member listed in Db2 group attach name table. If the first member of the group is unavailable, then no connection at all can be ma...
    4 months ago in IMS Database Manager / All components 0 Under review

    TPFUG Requirement: Enchancement to ZSRVC: Manage REST services statistics to provide additional information

    Increase visibility for troubleshooting issues and configuring REST Services for zTPF developers and operations support. Update ZSRVC STATS display at a high level to provide how many times each operation is being called, payload sizes, and respon...
    5 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

    Support for DLI or DBB batch regions to get PSB/DBD metadata from IMS staging directory.

    Hi, We have quarterly releases where we bring down IMS and run our database change reorgs. While our IMS systems were non managed ACBs, our multi step reorgs run IC and unloads using metadata from DBDLIB.CURR and reload, index builder and post IC ...
    5 months ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 0 Under review

    Extend message "OLDR3024W name – GROUP NAME groupname IN LOADSET lsname DOES NOT EXIST – TPF DEFAULT IS USED FOR GROUP ID" with the name of the file

    I have a loadset with about 300 files and receive during the zoldr load the following warning message: OLDR3024W 00.42.50 CLDZ - GROUP NAME tpfdfl IN LOADSET Z77167 DOES NOT EXIST - TPF DEFAULT IS USED FOR GROUP ID^ It's hard to check all the comp...
    6 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Future consideration

    IMS Modernization Sandbox in zCX

    A containerized sandbox running in z/OS Container Extensions (zCX) that provides a simulated IMS environment for rapid prototyping and API testing will be useful for potential IMS customers.
    6 months ago in IMS Database Manager / All components 0 Submitted

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